Oppressor Quotes

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. - James A. Baldwin

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. - Emile M. Cioran

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel

We hope this court will heal the wounds of those who were harmed by Saddam's crimes ... (and) also teach a good lesson to other oppressors. - Hamid-Reza Asefi

We cannot challenge opposition and justice without upsetting the oppressor. - Joe Carr

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty. - George Jackson

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. - Amos Oz

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. - Maximilien Robespierre

Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word, / And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: / Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. - Bible